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P. A. BUELL.

(No Model.)

SAW HANDLE.

Patented Mar. 31, 1885.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE., A

FRANK A. BUELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SAW-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,562, dated March 31., 1885.

Application tiled August 11,1884.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. BUELL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Saw-Handle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved saw-handle, which is simplein construction, strong, durable, and cheap.

The invention consists in certain improvements in that class of saw-handles that are formed of wood and have metal re-enforcing plates secured to their lower edges, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speeioation, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a side view of my improved sawhandle. Fig. 2 is a crossesectional elevation of the same on the line x x, Fig. l.

The saw-handleA is provided with a metal bottom bridge, B, terminating at its outer end in the horn O. In the inner surface of the bridge B a dovetailed groove is formed to receive a dovetailed ridge, D, on the bottom of the wooden part of the handle. A screw, E, is passed through the metal bridge into the corresponding part of the wooden part of the handle, to prevent the bridge from shifting.

(No model.)

In the bottom surface of the bridge a groove is formed for receiving the upper edge of the tongue F of the saw-blade F. The inner end parts of the handle and bridge are slitted to receive the butt-end of the blade F. A

By constructing the handle -in the manner shown and described the wooden part can be sawed out in one operation, whereas in making the usual wooden handles the outside must be sawed out by means of a bandsaw and the inner part sawed out by means of a gig-saw, which makes the handles quite expensive.

The metal horn cannot break off, as the woo len horns do.

The metal bridge, which may he lnade of brass, iron, steel, Sto., is shaped like the usual Wooden bridge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure hy Letters Patent, is

A wooden saw-handle having a metal bot tom bridge provided in its upper surface with a dovetailed groove for receiving a dovetailed ridge on the bottom of the wooden part of the handle, substantially as herein shown and described.

FRANK A. BUELL. Witnesses:

OsoAR I. GUNZ," C. SEDGWICK. 

